Henry did not wait any longer. He said, “All right,” and started back for the lawn. The boys watched him leave.
“Now, what were you saying, Lanky?”
“I was saying that you can see the house from here. The room that was ransacked is right there on the corner in front. Suppose there came a signal from there—it could be seen from here.”
“But why would a signal come from there?”
“Well, suppose they had finished their work, suppose they were not in need of the automobile; if they signaled from up at the window, then a signal from here, like the lighted match, would let them know their signal had been seen and it would also act as a signal to the fellow in the automobile.”
“Exactly!” cried Frank. “That’s the way I have it figured out. Now, the next question is: Did they ransack the dining room between the time Mrs. Parsons screamed—or the first scream we heard—and the time we got to the rear door?”
“They surely did, Frank,” agreed Wallace. “I believe they could have done it.”
“All right!” The other three boys listened in admiration to this exciting disclosure of the details of the robbery. “But that means we have how many in the gang?”
“Four, of course!” came in quick reply from Lanky.
“Well, then, if that’s agreed, let’s go to the Rocket and we’ll do some more hunting.”